Hi Steven,
At 2000 May 13 - Saturday 21:57, Steven_Read@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
spoke about *[OM] How to get a 2-13 screen witho...* saying
...
> I was expecting the 3Ti metering
> (use spot) to work fine with the 8mm versus the trouble one has with the 1n or
> 2n on manual (can't see the darned meter). Sort of new camera/old lens.
> But...
> while I could see and read the meter, it was way off. The OM-SIF (thank you
> Hans) notes, under 8mm/Fisheye, that "The aperture diaphragm does not couple
> to
> the exposure meter." To which I said "Hunh?" but indeed, when I looked no
> coupling. I would have thought that it would still work, just that the
> metering
> would have been based on 1:2,8 - it clearly doesn't though. Auto-diaphragm,
> but no f-stop tab... makes no sense to me, except that when originally
> released
> the only way to effectively meter was OM-2/2n auto mode. Am I missing
> something
> or is it as simple as that?
My guess is that the aperture for the 8mm is so small, they couldn't
get the leverage right for the lever.
...
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